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Updated July 26, 1996 12:01 a.m. ET

Berg, Alban (1855-1935)--

Austrian composer who was strongly influenced by Sch&ouml;nberg's 12-tone method of composition. He wrote two operas, "Wozzeck" and "Lulu." Both deal with the predicaments and the perversion of the dregs of humanity, and are among the greatest, most powerful and most disturbing of all 20th-century...